Hi everyone!

My problem is that ion my /dev directory there is no parport, but there is a lp0 device (akward, isnt it?), I tried to make this devices with MAKEDEV -v parport (that it's supposed to create the parport0, parport1 and parport2) and it says to me that it created them, just like this:
chimi:/dev# MAKEDEV -v parport
create parport0 c 99 0 root:lp 0660
create parport1 c 99 1 root:lp 0660
create parport2 c 99 2 root:lp 0660

but after this the still dont exist!!!:
chimi:/dev# ls parport0
ls: parport0: No such file or directory

and parallel port works perfectly, since I needed to use it on a C++ program, and I used ioperm() and inb()/outb(), and worked perfectly, but I rather use the device (open ("/dev/parport0",...))...

My system is a Debian sarge 3.1r0a running on a 2.6.16.18 kernel with glibc6

Does anyone knkow what's going on??
Thanx!!

Not sure if this has anything to do with it but just found out about the /sys filesystem in 2.6 kernels the other day. It contains something like /sys/bus/pci/parport (may not be quite correct - not looking at Linux at the moment). Apparently /sys created with an eye to replacing /proc/sys. Maybe part of the changes made also got rid of /dev entries. In looking at other things I did try to find things that I saw symbolic links back to /dev but the things weren't there. Didn't keep anything from working.

So what you say is that I must use /sys/bus/pci/parport instead of the normal /dev/parport??